Guest Blog by Ryan Graudin: Creating A Sense of Danger
Ryan Graudin
The setting of my YA novel THE WALLED CITY is based on a real place called the Kowloon Walled City, a neighborhood that existed in 1980s Hong Kong. It was…
Fantasy-Faction Take Part in Quercus Books’s #GreatestGift Christmas Campaign
Overlord
Who enjoys being filmed? No one, right? Certainly not me… the moment a camera is pointed in my direction I’m likely to bolt in the other direction. However, when I…
Underground Fantasy – Part Two: Dungeons, Tombs and Mazes
Steff Humm
The first part of this series on underground fantasy looked at caverns as settings and pathways to worlds below. Next we will explore dungeons, tombs and underground mazes to ascertain…
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
Geoff Matthews
Terry Pratchett is angry. You’ll like him when he is angry. That is the gist of foreword by Neil Gaiman and as you read through the collected works of non-fiction…
Five Reasons You Didn’t Fail NaNoWriMo
Adrian Faulkner
So no doubt your social media streams have been filled over the last few weeks by people celebrating their NaNoWriMo success. Undoubtedly, there’s a lot of high-fiving and statuses being…
Guo tackles Book of the New Sun covers…
You may remember that earlier this year we brought to your attention the artwork of Jian Guo, who had won a competition to design the new Chinese Lord of The…
Fantasy Makes History Cool
Nicole Singer
I’m a history major at heart, so one of the things I love seeing in fantasy is how authors draw on real-world history to fuel their worlds. Whether it be…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Apprenticeship
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Gollancz sign Dan Abnett Fantasy Trilogy!
We got some pretty exciting news here at Fantasy-Faction today, our friends Gollancz and Dan Abnett are teaming up to publish Dan’s latest series: a self-contained, action-packed heroic fantasy trilogy.…
A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
James Davies
A Darkness at Sethanon is a strange novel. Whilst it brings the Riftwar Saga to a conclusive close, it truly kicked off the large-scale entity now commonly referred to as…
Trailer for Telltale’s Game of Thrones
Lets be honest, to date, there have been two types of Game of Thrones game: 1) Bad, 2) Terrible. However, ever since we heard Telltale had hooked up with HBO…
Class Warfare: Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Literary Fiction
Zachary A. Matzo
The line drawn between so-called literary fiction and genre fiction has always irked me. As I embarked upon a re-read of the first two volumes of Lev Grossman’s frustrating Magicians…